Diy Nature Impressions Jewelry
Guest tutorial yesteryear Becca Gardner (bybeccag)
This is a beautiful fourth dimension of the twelvemonth to travel out inwards nature. Our family loves to leave of absence hiking, travel it inwards the forest, at the beach, along the creek or but downwardly the street. And, inevitably, nosotros come upward dorsum amongst treasures. Rocks, leaves, nuts, bugs, shells, rusty metal, sticks. Lots of sticks. I could blame it on my boys who dearest to induce total their pockets amongst whatsoever together with everything but actually I dearest it equally much equally they do.
After 1 such adventure, nosotros came dorsum amongst a collection of eucalyptus paste nuts.
What to produce amongst all this treasure?!
Today I'm going to present you lot how I used the nuts equally stamps to brand clay jewelry. I role this same process to brand the buttons for the scarves in my Etsy shop. This would brand a fabulous vacation gift but it is also a bully means to preserve special memories.
First affair to produce is larn collecting. Get outside! Collect a picayune something from your jaunt. Leaves, acorns, walnut shells, rocks, flowers, interesting twigs.
Next, direct maintain the clay together with curlicue it out. Normally, I role clay that must travel fired inwards a kiln but for this projection I used air-dry clay. It is real calorie-free weight when it dries together with you lot don't need access to a kiln.
Take your "treasure" together with stamp it into the clay.
Cut to a greater extent than or less the stamped expanse inwards the kind of your choosing using a fine, abrupt point. This could travel a toothpick, a newspaper clip, or perhaps fifty-fifty a modest cookie cutter. If you lot are making it into a necklace, you lot may desire to lay a modest hole through it amongst a straw or abrupt object.
Let the clay dry together with harden.
Now for the difficult part...deciding what colors to pigment it! Using acryllic paint, dip your finger into a picayune pigment together with brush over your print. This is a bully means to present off the texture of your nature imprint.
Add a coat of clear acryllic spray to hand it a picayune polish together with seal the clay. Then brand your accessory of choice. Glue on some earring backs or recall base of operations or brand a necklace!
This is a beautiful fourth dimension of the twelvemonth to travel out inwards nature. Our family loves to leave of absence hiking, travel it inwards the forest, at the beach, along the creek or but downwardly the street. And, inevitably, nosotros come upward dorsum amongst treasures. Rocks, leaves, nuts, bugs, shells, rusty metal, sticks. Lots of sticks. I could blame it on my boys who dearest to induce total their pockets amongst whatsoever together with everything but actually I dearest it equally much equally they do.
After 1 such adventure, nosotros came dorsum amongst a collection of eucalyptus paste nuts.
What to produce amongst all this treasure?!
Today I'm going to present you lot how I used the nuts equally stamps to brand clay jewelry. I role this same process to brand the buttons for the scarves in my Etsy shop. This would brand a fabulous vacation gift but it is also a bully means to preserve special memories.
First affair to produce is larn collecting. Get outside! Collect a picayune something from your jaunt. Leaves, acorns, walnut shells, rocks, flowers, interesting twigs.
Next, direct maintain the clay together with curlicue it out. Normally, I role clay that must travel fired inwards a kiln but for this projection I used air-dry clay. It is real calorie-free weight when it dries together with you lot don't need access to a kiln.
Take your "treasure" together with stamp it into the clay.
Cut to a greater extent than or less the stamped expanse inwards the kind of your choosing using a fine, abrupt point. This could travel a toothpick, a newspaper clip, or perhaps fifty-fifty a modest cookie cutter. If you lot are making it into a necklace, you lot may desire to lay a modest hole through it amongst a straw or abrupt object.
Let the clay dry together with harden.
Now for the difficult part...deciding what colors to pigment it! Using acryllic paint, dip your finger into a picayune pigment together with brush over your print. This is a bully means to present off the texture of your nature imprint.
Add a coat of clear acryllic spray to hand it a picayune polish together with seal the clay. Then brand your accessory of choice. Glue on some earring backs or recall base of operations or brand a necklace!
Have fun amongst it!
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